Monday, 25 November 2013

Thought Bubble Week, Day 1: MARCH OF THE (awesome) ROBOTS

I spent a fantastic weekend just past at Thought Bubble, the
Greatest Comics Festival in the World or Certainly Leeds. Amongst the numerous
fun things I was doing there were running some informal workshops, teaching
kids How To Draw Robots (Awesome Variety). I was doing this with Playful Leeds as part
of their year-long March of the Robots project, which is a hugely fun and
brilliant idea involving doing all kinds of activities and events to eventually fill Leeds with 10,000 ROBOTS, and which you can read all about HERE.

So here are some of our Awesome Robot Volunteer Design Team from the
weekend!

This kid was great, loved Platypuses so much he drew one brilliant Platypus-bot and then immediately drew another.

...and then a third. Which he proceeded to WEAR AS A MASK.

And finally, this young roboticist done FLIPPED THE SCRIPT on everyone, not merely drawing a robot but taking the drawing sheet and converting it INTO A ROBOT. Dammmmnnnnnn!

Those are the few I managed to get pictures of, anyway, but they
represent the merest grain of sand in the ENORMOUS BEACH of giant robot designs
that had accumulated by the end of the weekend. The stated goal of the MOTR
project is to design, construct or otherwise bring-into-being 10,000 robots in
Leeds over the year, and I feel sure we must have made at least some steps
towards that target at Thought Bubble.

Oh hey, and here is a video of me, drawing a Pie Floater-Bot, for reasons I am not even going to attempt to explain.

Anyway,it was a huge amount of fun, and I'd just like to say an
enormous thank you to everyone who came along and hung out and drew robots, and
most of all to Emma Bearman of Playful Leedsfor inviting me along to be a part of it, and also for just being
generally lovely, and also for buying me stew.

Anyway, that is One Cool Thing I was doing at Thought Bubble.
Tomorrow, and indeed every day this week, I will try and post about some of the
other ones.